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NTRODUCTION
This switch provides a broad range of features for Layer 2 switching. It
includes a management agent that allows you to configure the features
listed in this manual. The default configuration can be used for most of the
features provided by this switch. However, there are many options that
you should configure to maximize the switch’s performance for your
particular network environment.
Key Features
Feature
Description
Authentication
Console, Telnet, Web – User name / password
SNMP – Community strings
Configuration
Backup / Restore
Backup to TFTP server
Port Configuration Speed, duplex mode and flow control
Port Mirroring
One or more ports mirrored to single analysis port
Static Address
Up to 6K MAC addresses in the forwarding table
Trunks
Static trunks or dynamic Link Aggregation Control Protocol
Spanning Tree
Protocol
Supported
Virtual LANs
Up to 255
Traffic
Prioritization
Supports two priority queues; queuing based on First-In
First-Out (FIFO), high queue before low queue, or Weighted
Round Robin (WRR)
Multicast Filtering Supports IGMP snooping and query
Summary of Contents for 6709L2
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